Winter Wonderland
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ThingFishComment by HarveyG: Fred, no idea how I missed this. What a fabulous iconic winter scene.
Of course everyone will dissect the image as they have the luxury of looking at it for a long period of time. What's often missed by viewers, voters, and this irks me no end, is the lack of comprehension of the effort required to get a shot and purely voting on ROT, sharpness, colour, composition, and their perception of DMC/DNMC. To get out in the cold, to get up early, to visualise the shot, to know how to shoot it, and to return after a long or cold or perilous journey. Landscape photographers know this too well. Early mornings, cold late evenings after sunrise, mountains, and so on. Work load and effort is valid also for studio work, but generally that is a repetitive re-creatable environment.
Not withstanding the above drivel , what makes this shot are the two shoe trails seemingly leading away into the mist. Without that enigma, I think the image may not have had the impact it does. Well done, ribbon or not.
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